Brewer Chapter 13
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Charlemagne | was in family line of bad rulers. From the family carlingians, rulers of the Franks. |
| Papal states | made up a region in central Italy that was under the control of the Pope |
| counts | officials that would rule parts of the empire in place of the emperor |
| navigation | planning the course across the sea |
| sagas | long Icelandic stories about great heroes and events |
| Leif Erikson | led the vikings to North America, where they settled on the eastern shore of what is now Canada. |
| knights | highly skilled soldiers who fought on horseback. |
| fief | land given to a knight for is service |
| vassal | anyone who accepted a fief |
| feudal system | the system of exchanging land for service |
| fealty | a knight's promise to remain loyal to his lord and not turn against him |
| manorial system | related to the feudal system, built around manors |
| serfs | workers who were legally tied to the manor on which they worked. |
| Alfred the Great | the king of Wessex in southern england, ended the Vikings campaign in England around 878 |
| William the Conquerer | Norman distant cousin of the dead king in 1066. Was angered that he didn't get the crown so he built an army and conquered england |
| Domesday book | a book that William used to create a central tax system for England |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | a powerful French duchess, who married Hungry II |
| Magna Carta | document that made provisions that restricted the king's power. |
| parliament | the governing body made up of nobility, clergy and middle class that still makes England's laws today |
| Hugh Capet | on the the first capetians to hold power in France |
| Otto the Great | the duke of Saxony, gained enough support from other German nobles to succeed his father, Henry I |
| Reconquista | or reconquest. Christian states embarked on a series of campaigns to retake the Iberian Peninsula. |
| piety | is a person's level of devotion to his or her religion |
| pontificate | or papal term in office |
| Pope Gregory VII | during his time as pope the issue of clergy selection became critical |
| Henry IV | Holy Roman emperor at the time of Pope Gregory VII |
| feudalism | was a result of the Viking, Magyar, and Muslim invasion kings found themselves unable to defend small villages or land of nobles from attacks |
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